Kanye West appears on a double-headed cover of the October issue of XXL. ‘Ye also served as the creative director of the special collector’s 40-page section.
In a recent interview with MTV Kanye shares his thoughts on his career and what he did to Taylor Swift:
In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was…because I felt very alone. I stress that the incident wasn’t about Taylor personally, and it definitely wasn’t about race. Where I messed up is, at the end of the day, it’s your show, Taylor. It’s your show, MTV.
On apologizing:
The relationship with the public and with your fans is like the relationship with your girlfriend. How could I not, at a certain point, be like, ‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have been at the awards show. I’m sorry?’ Not that I don’t deserve to get beat up or change who I am inside, to make sure that that doesn’t happen again.
On bouncing back:
I knew I wasn’t in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace.
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